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TIL that while attending Harvard in 1959, the “Unibomber” Ted Kaczynksi participated in a study where he was subjected to a “purposely brutalizing psychological experiment,” which some lawyers attribute some of his future emotional instability and dislike of mind control.

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4XZdJ TIL about the potlatch, a ceremony of some First Nations on the Canadian Northwest Coast held to celebrate events (ex. marriages, births). It served to confer status and redistribute wealth, which was seen as anti-Christian and wasteful of personal property, leading to a federal ban from 1884-1951.
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